The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today welcomed Dell EMC to the OpenSDS
Project. The OpenSDS community is forming to address software-defined
storage integration challenges with the goal of driving enterprise
adoption of open standards.

As part of its support for the open source project, Dell EMC is also contributing its first project to OpenSDS, the CoprHD SouthBound SDK
(SB SDK), to help promote storage interoperability and compatibility.
The SB SDK allows developers to build drivers and other tools with the
assurance that they will be compatible with a wide variety of
enterprise-class storage products.

The OpenSDS Project is
comprised of storage users and vendors, including Fujitsu, Hitachi Data
Systems, Huawei, Oregon State University and Vodafone. The project will
also seek to collaborate with other upstream open source communities
such as Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Docker, OpenStack and Open
Container Initiative.

"Dell EMC is a welcome addition to the
OpenSDS Project and we look forward to its input," said Cameron Bahar,
Senior Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer of storage at
Huawei. "We invite other vendors and enterprise customers to follow Dell
EMC's lead, and to join us in creating an open storage controller
solution across cloud, containerized, virtualized and other
environments, and make storage-as-a-service a reality."

Join Dell
EMC on Tuesday, December 20 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST/18:00 GMT for an
introduction and architectural tour of the SB SDK, to be webcast live on YouTube. Dell EMC will demonstrate the current capabilities of the SB SDK and provide an overview of the project's roadmap.

"As the first storage vendor to open source a software-defined storage controller,
we're very excited to join OpenSDS," said John Mark Walker, Director of
Product Management for Dell EMC. "We look forward to collaborating with
customers, partners and other vendors to create open source tools and
standards for storage interoperability."

The OpenSDS technical community hosts discussions on a dedicated mailing list: tech-discuss@opensds.io. For more information about OpenSDS, please email info@opensds.io.